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Originally Posted by MonkeyRonin
So, instead of housing a rapidly growing population in high-density inner-city condos & apartments (replacing derelict industrial areas that are blight on the built form, at that), would building over more farm land with more awful tract houses on the edge of the city be preferable?  (while at the same time increasing the inaffordability of the inner-city due to the inventory of housing not keeping up with demand) |
Yes, but the vast majority of the rapid growth is occurring in the GTA, and what happened to all the promises of building great public spaces and amenities? An energy plant? A fenced-off, white elephant film studio? Corus, that would look perfectly at home in a Vaughan industrial park? They were supposed to have learned from the mistakes made on the central waterfront. Instead, it's being slowly eaten up by the same-old, same-old: private development with token public bits inserted in the leftover spaces; more unaffordable yuppiefront with little strips of 'public' walkway between the condos with nothing that anyone will want to walk to.